It’s Day 4 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, and in the continued interest of keeping the Politics Thread functional and welcoming to anyone who might want to talk about something political besides the DNC, we’re asking that live blogging … Continue reading DNC 2024: Day 4 (Thursday, August 22nd)

It’s Day 3 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, and in the interest of keeping the Politics Thread functional and welcoming to anyone who might want to talk about something political besides the DNC, we’re asking that live blogging and … Continue reading DNC 2024: Day 3 (Wednesday, August 21st)

Do you need to watch this?  No.  But you can.  Just… be careful.  The levels of concentrated anger and thinly-veiled hate speech can numb one to such things. But go on and vent your spleens folks. Continue reading RNC Night 3: What rough beast, its hour come at last?

Dear Avocadoans:  How do you feel about yourself?  That bad, huh?  Then have I got a thread for you!  Here is tonight’s dedicated thread for the Republican National Convention! Hooray! … Question mark? Continue reading RNC Night 2: Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.

Here we are, approaching the beginning of the end.  (That milestone I’ll put at the end of the Republican convention a week from today, but we’re getting close) Tonight we’re going to hear from some of Biden’s former rivals for … Continue reading DNC Night 4: [Insert “Joe” pun here]

Tonight:  The acceptance speech of the first African-American woman on a major party ticket, who is simultaneously the first Asian-American of any gender on a major party ticket, and the first woman on a major party ticket who has never … Continue reading DNC Night 3: Everything’s Coming up Kamala

Step right up, get your tickets to the Greatest Show on Earth on Tuesday! That’s right!  Tonight you’ll be able to see the Roll Call vote in… some fashion.  Yes, that means that no longer do we have to deal … Continue reading DNC Night 2: Democratic Boogaloo